Out of touch on foreclosures - Boston Globe

Story date: 2008-05-13 09:07:00
Added on: 2008-05-13 22:41:31

PRESIDENT BUSH frets that foreclosure relief legislation would "reward speculators and lenders." So he dismisses carefully crafted efforts by Congress to prevent as many as 500,000 families from losing their homes to foreclosure. His concerns are not ...


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